186 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



PuERE Maw : The ROSEATE TERN. (Carrickfergus.) From 

 its hoarse cry. Maw is an equivalent of Gull. 



Puttock: The KITE and also the COMI^ION BUZZARD 

 Turner and Merrett apply it to the former, while Willughby 

 applies it to the latter bird, to which also it was until 

 recently applied in Essex, where half a century ago it was 

 not such a vara avis in that county as the Kite. Montagu 

 also gives it as a provincial name of the Common 

 Buzzard, but Bewick, who spells it Puttok, applies it 

 to the Kite. It appears also to have been sometimes 

 applied to the MARSH-HARRIER. It is a contraction 

 of " poot-hawk," lit. " pullet-hawk," pool signifying poult 

 or pullet. Also sometimes spelt " Puddock." 



PwFFiN. A Welsh name for the PUFFIN, of which it is, perhaps, 

 the original. 



PwFFiN MAN AW or PwFFiNGEN Fanaw. Welsh names for the 



MANX SHEARWATER ; lit. " Manx Puffin." 

 Pygmy Curlew. See " Pigmy Curlew." 



Pysg Eryr. a Welsh name for the OSPREY, signifying 



" Fish eagle." 

 Pysgotwr : The KINGFISHER. (North Wales) lit. "fisher." 



QUAIL [No. 468]. From O.Fr. Quaille (Mod. Fr. Caille). The 

 name occurs in Turner (1544) as " Quale : " Merrett and 

 Willughby have Quail. As instancing the immense migra- 

 tions of former times it may be related that Pliny credits 

 them with being a danger to sailors, as he says they often 

 settle on the sails, and that always at night, and so sink 

 ships. 



QuAiLziE. An old Scots name for the QUAIL. 



Quaketail. a name invented by Macgillivray for the group 

 of " yellow " wagtails (Budytes), as distinguished from the 

 PIED WAGTAIL and its congeners which he called 

 " wagtails." 

 Queest, Quest, Quist, Quisty. Provincial names for the 

 RING-DOVE. Occurs in Merrett (1667) as " Quist " and 

 in Montagu as " Quest." It is also found corrupted to 

 Quice, Queeze, or Quease. From Lat. questus. (See also 

 Wood Quest.) 

 Queet. a name for the COOT. (Swainson.) 

 QuEEZE : The RING-DOVE. (Cheshire.) (See Queest.) 

 QuET : The COMMON GUILLEMOT. (Aberdeen.) 

 QuHAiP. An old Scots form of " Whaup " (CURLEW). 



